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[dougSF30]

Puhlease. Intel is behind on iAMD64, behind on NX, behind on an integrated memory controller, behind on glueless interconnect, behind on power dissipation. They better get to work on out-something-ing AMD.

Doug

[smooth2o]

And so it seems to be:

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39149445,00.htm

Intel hopes that a new naming scheme will wean buyers off clock-speed addiction

Intel has confirmed to ZDNet UK the truth of rumours that it is dropping speeds from future processor names. Instead, new chips will be christened with a model number, in a similar scheme long adopted by car makers. "Rather than have people concentrate on the gigahertz, we want people to look at the features that make up a particular processor," an Intel spokesman told ZDNet UK.


The new naming scheme will replace the speed with a three-digit number, starting with 3 for low-end chips, 5 for standard performance and 7 for the top of the range models. As now, mobile and desktop processors will be run as two separate brands, and existing brand names will be retained.


Celeron will now be known as Celeron D (for Desktop) or Celeron M (for Mobile), and the Pentium 4, M and 4M will also survive. Thus, the next desktop Celeron will be called something like Celeron D 300 while Dothan, the next upgrade to the Pentium M, will be the Pentium M 700, for example. Different combinations of speed, cache, front side bus and other technologies will be indicated by different numbers in the series.


"The intention is to increase the numbers with the feature count of a processor, not necessarily the performance," said Intel's spokesperson. "You won't be able to compare numbers directly. It will be easier to differentiate products within a family."


Dothan will be the first product to wear the new scheme when it is launched in May 2004, followed by the next revision of the Pentium 4 later in the second quarter. There'll be no 7 model Pentium 4 -- the Extreme Edition end of the market -- until Q4 of this year. Existing chips will retain their existing names, and the full product name will continue to include "Hyper-Threading Technology".

Geeze, you'd think I was an insider or something...
Smooth

[Jules2]

Posted by: smooth2o
In reply to: Petz who wrote msg# 29132 Date:3/19/2004 12:59:48 PM
Post #of 29228

Petz:The higher 100's digit has nothing to do with additional features

Never said it did. What I did say, was that Intel will take a LOT of pressure off GHz, maybe all, and market features instead. Speed is not an issue anymore, people should stop hyping these little speed differences between AMD and Intel. They mean nothing. There is more than enough computer power to do almost anything. Either you keep up with the chip technology or you don't. A lot of it will be if you can compete, in profits that generate new technologies, not in speed. I think this is what Intel has in mind. They can outmarket AMD, they can outbuild AMD and they can outprofit AMD.

Petz: wbmw's original assertion was that you can compare performance across all models by looking at the XX digits -- this is false. The first digit doesn't even indicate the architecture, since IIRC, both Celeron Ms and Celeron P4s use the same leading digit, 3.

There you go again. Look beyond.


Smooth

You forgot performance???

Jules